SEMINAR: Archaeological Seminar Series Semester 1, 2011
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Archaeological Seminar Series Semester 1, 2011 : Local Expressions of a Global Network:Convictism in the Avon Valley, Western Australia |
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Convict transportation was a global system that operated for approximately 300 years from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Under this system over one million convicts were subjected to forced migration, often from one side of the world to the other. As such, transportation had a major impact on the development of the colonial world in the post-medieval period. Motivations for transportation were complex and changed over time. Likewise, the way the system was enacted, and the experience of its human products, the convicts, varied through time and between places. An archaeological and historical investigation of convictism in Western Australia demonstrates a local expression of this global system. The Swan River Colony, settled in 1829, operated as a penal colony from 1850 to 1875, and was the last place to receive convicts from Britain. The imposition of the system had a major impact on the development of the colony, providing a source of capital and labour. The excavation of sites in the Avon Valley demonstrated that the Western Australian system and the experience of the convicts within it, was different from that of any other penal colony within the global system.
Speaker(s) |
Sean Winter
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Location |
Social Sciences Lecture Room 1 (G 28)
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Contact |
Karen Eichorn
<[email protected]>
: 7249
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Start |
Thu, 19 May 2011 16:00
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End |
Thu, 19 May 2011 17:00
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Submitted by |
Karen Eichorn <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Tue, 10 May 2011 10:50
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